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In this episode of the Musicals Podcast Edward Seckerson drops in on the two leading ladies of the current revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love - Laura Pitt-Pulford and Danielle de Niese - to compare notes on two fascinating women and re-evaluate the show itself 34 years on from its premiere. It’s two hours before curtain up and Michael Ball’s ears must have been burning…

Recorded backstage at London’s Lyric Theatre in June 2023.

The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.

For more details on Musicals magazine, please visit MusicalsMagazine.com

In this episode of the Musicals Podcast, Edward Seckerson talks to Jon Robyns about his journey from singing in the National Youth Choir to playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and now the new Phantom in Phantom of the Opera.  

The episode was recorded in May 2023 in Robyns’s dressing room at His Majesty's Theatre.  

The opening and closing musical excerpts featured in this podcast are from the Overture to Gypsy (film version), taken from Jule Styne’s ‘Overtures Vol 2’, courtesy of JAY Records.

For more details on Musicals magazine, visit www.MusicalsMagazine.com

Critici buitelden over elkaar heen, om deze film zo hard mogelijk te dissen. Een zestal Razzies viel 'm ten deel. En ook op de IMDb-lijst met de slechtste honderd films prijkt zijn naam. Cats (2019) van Tom Hooper is een populair object voor haat. Maar wat nou als er ook iemand is die deze film zonder een greintje ironie heel erg liefheeft?

Kunstenaar en performer Pim Steinmann gaf Cats op Letterboxd de volle vijf sterren. Ze luistert de muziek op repeat en reisde bijna heel ver af om de musicalverfilming nog één keertje op groot scherm te zien, toen het nog net kon. Nu schuift ze graag aan om haar liefde voor deze film te delen in de podcast. En host Ruud geeft Pim graag dat podium. Want, ook al vond hij de film zeker niet goed, hij heeft er zelf wel een dikke bak lol aan beleefd.

Dus schuif aan voor een heerlijk bizar CGI-feest, met antropomorfe kakkerlakken en amper verhaal. Misschien ben je achteraf ook wel overtuigd om Cats de kans te geven die die verdient. Want het is een wonder dat zoiets als dit bestaat. En als je jezelf eraan over kunt geven, is het op zijn minst een belevenis.

Ook hebben we het in deze aflevering over de relatie tussen laserontharing en de uncanny valley, hoe Rebel Wilson in een gootsteen plast en onze ideale plannen voor Cats 2.

Steun Duimpjeworstelen op Patreon! En ontvang leuke extraatjes ^_^

Links:

• Website Pim Steinmann: https://pgasteinmann.wixsite.com/mijnsite
• Stortvloed, spoken word, storytelling en comedy in Breda: https://www.facebook.com/Stortvloedbreda/
• Pims boekuitgave in De Reeks: https://dereeks.nl/pim-steinmann/ 
• Pim Steinmann - Vlog over daten (3-7-2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUk-WWbp48 

Extra links:

• Het verhaal 'Must Love Cats' uit This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/695/everyones-a-critic/act-three-23
• 'Why the Music in Cats (2019) is Worse than you Thought' van Sideways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aK-EK5V2k
• Lindsay Ellis beantwoordt 'Why is Cats?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6iqAip-ZNo
• Videoclip Radiohead – Paranoid Android: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw 
• Meme van Ben Affleck tijdens een interview over Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtfoRESVir0 

Meow this one was bad. Like confusing bad. Join us as we tear through the Razzie Award winner based on Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous play and directed by Tom Hooper.

The all-Cats episode awakened something in your hosts, and this week they're dishing up a deeper dive into musical theatre.

Joining us this week are special guests Bea Miranda and Ezra Reaves. Will they be able to figure out how pinball they are (and also how musicals are pinball)? Maybe!

Topics discussed include: Little Shop of Horrors, Evil Dead: the Musical, Gypsy, Jesus Christ Superstar, the pop-punk musical pantheon, and movies that became musicals that became movies,.

You might be tempted to think: "Ah, yes, another regular ol' episode with these three dummies." 

But in this episode, we talk about Cats the musical.

Buckle up: all three of your hosts have lots of opinions about those horny singing felines, Andrew Lloyd Webber's feelings about God, the unholy abomination that is Cats the musical: the movie, and how pinball it all is.

Also in this episode: Skyrim en espagnol, literally the first five minutes of Death Stranding, and more about Cats. 

This week we are taking on one of the true titans of musical theater: Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Aspects of Love was a smash success in the West End, but Broadway audiences did not fall in love with this 1990 show the same way as their British counterparts. Tune in for everything from 90s album art to a salute to Captain Tom.    

As soon as we caught a glimpse of the infamous first trailer for Cats, we knew it would be a perfect addition to our Crooked Commentary series. After all, we've talked about some great films in the last few installments, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and When Harry Met Sally... So it's about time we get Crooked Commentary back to awesomely bad movies like The Room.

Directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), Cats assembles an outstanding ensemble cast that includes Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, and Taylor Swift. Unfortunately, it also uses bizarre computer-generated "digital fur" effects and bears essentially no plot to speak of. Still, we found ourselves unable to look away.

Kai Yaniz, once again -- this time more begrudgingly than usual -- returns for this very "jellicle" Crooked Commentary episode. So get a saucer of milk and prepare to meet Rum Tum Tugger, Macavity, Skimbleshanks, and the rest of the gang. This is one "memory" you won't soon forget. We're not sure whether a great movie could have ever been made from Andrew Lloyd Webber's bizarre musical. But we're pretty sure this isn't it. It's Cats, baby!

SYNOPSIS

A tribe of cats must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

SHOW NOTES

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Yes, we risked the very last drops of our sanity to save YOUR world and went to see CATS so you don't have to. We discuss everything from the desperate need for kitty keenex to sexy spurting milk to TS Elliot's speech-impedimented niece. AND we discover what Jellicle ACTUALLY means. Not only that, but we also touch base on the latest Star Wars movie and release the unofficial new Space Force Theme song that you didn't know you needed.

WARNING: Dropbear & Panda are not responsible for any Jellicle-related injuries that are sustained as a result of listening to this podcast. Please listen at your own discretion. No Jellicle Cats were harmed in the making of this Podcast (which is unfortunate.)

LINKS FOUND IN THIS PODCAST

• Nelly Melody
• Rahi MC / Concord
• D-Box Seats
• Cats: The Musical
• Cats: The Movie

MUSIC SAMPLES FOUND IN THIS PODCAST

• DMX - X Gunna Give it to ya
• Beastie Boys - Body Moving
• LOTR - And My Axe
• Timpani Drum Roll
• Is That Baboo?
• MEOW
• Dropbear and Panda in: JAG WAR
• Lightsaber
• Kitten Meow
• Stray Cat Strut
• Wrapped in Plastic - Marilyn Manson
• Milk Does a Body Good
• A Clockwork Orange
• PornoSonic
• Furry Force
• Monkeys Spinning Monkeys from Kevin MacLeod
• No God - The Office
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

SPECIAL THANKS TO
Our sponsors The Friday Sock Company and Make More Creative;
Emre Cords for our amazing theme music;
and Rob Mitchelson for the insane jingles and Unofficial Space Force theme song.

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Den världsberömda finlandssvenska violinisten snackar bl.a. om Baywatch, jantelagen i Finland, Hugh Hefner och om när hon  dumpade prins Albert av Monaco i sista stund. Och så får vi för första gången höra avslöjandet om hennes affärspartner som sålde ut henne till veckopressen i Finland. 

Och vad gör man när byxorna börjar glida ner när man står på scen och spelar fiol?